Carlos Garcia-Jane (BA, MScEcon, MA | MSocInd)

Thesis title: Iconicity, embodiment, and textualisation in Buddhist textual practices

Biography

Qualifications

Society of Indexes -- Professional indexing qualification (2023)

MA Buddhist Studies -- University of South Wales (2021)

MScEcon Information and Library Studies -- Aberystwyth University (2015)

BA History of Art -- Universitat de Barcelona (2004)

 

Responsibilities & affiliations

Buddhist Studies Review | Journal of the UK Association for Buddhist Studies -- Book reviews editor (2023--)

UKABS (UK Association for Buddhist Studies) -- Postgraduate Representative (2021--); Social media and web (Interim) (2023--)

OCBS (Oxford Centre for Buddhist Studies) -- Bibliographer for the Pāli Hub and the Gombrich Archive (2018--)

Memberships

  • UKABS (UK Association for Buddhist Studies)
  • OCBS (Oxford Centre for Buddhist  Studies)
  • Edinburgh Buddhist Studies
  • Pali Text Society
  • IABS (International Association of Buddhist Studies)
  • Bibliographical Society
  • CILIP (Chartered Institute of Librarians and Information Professionals)
  • Society of Indexers

Research summary

I am interested in the organization, collection, and transmission of knowledge in Buddhism. In particular, I study the ritual, symbolic, and iconic uses of texts and their manifestation.

Current research interests

My current research focuses on the embodiment of Buddhist texts by means of practices of textualization, including ingesting, incorporating, and inscribing dharma-texts and other forms of Buddhist textuality into and onto the body as well as their metaphorical representations in the literature. It also concentrates on the place of dharma-texts in the Buddhist imaginary in the form of ideal textual collections. Lastly, it accounts for the copying, reproduction, and multiplication of dharma-texts as Buddhist practice.

Past research interests

My past research includes a master's dissertation on Buddhist studies on the place of reading in the practice of Buddhism and another master's dissertation on librarianship analysing the creation of Buddhist libraries in the UK.

Organiser

2023: UK Association for Buddhist Studies (UKABS) Annual Conference 2023. University of St Andrews June 2023 -- Postgraduate coordinator and panel convenor

2022: UK Association for Buddhist Studies (UKABS) Annual Conference 2022. SOAS University of London 25 June 2022 -- Postgraduate coordinator and postgraduate panel convenor

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